The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, or short KDD is one of the largest premier academic conference on data science and large scale data mining and machine learning. Many well-known researchers choose to publish their research at KDD and the conference attracts most of the big names in the machine learning community. The KDD Cup challenge is held in conjunction with the conference and every year it gathers many participants competing to win the award.

As data scientists, we here at Adform are fortunate to have a vast wealth of complex real-time bidding display advertising data ready and waiting to be analyzed. Such data offers fresh and interesting research possibilities to academics and, luckily for us, Jun and his Ph.D. student, Weinan Zhang, were more than happy to apply their technical skills to our data.Read More